...e of the easiest places to buy renewable energy for large-scale data center projects in the world is northern Europe, where Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Eastern Denmark operate a unified utility grid and have deregulated...

... be available to 21Vianet customers. The El Segundo, California-based company is also planning to expand into Europe, Papouchado said but declined to provide any more details about those plans. SFR’s Santa Clara data cen...

...kes of Greenpeace, and many have responded with initiatives such as Amazon’s recent pilot of Tesla batteries. Microsoft recently opened a zero-carbon, biogas-powered data center in Wyoming that combines modular data cent...

...er pair delivered on the current systems.
Microsoft is the first foundation customer on Acqua Comms’ America Europe Connect (AEConnect) project, a submarine cable system being built by TE SubCom. The infrastructure will...

...tomers across Europe.
The new €850m Athenry data centre will be the company’s largest data centre project in Europe, providing 300 jobs during its multiple phases.
As part of an overall €1.7bn investment, a similar App...

...e.
It has become necessary for cloud service providers who are not big companies like Amazon, Google, or Microsoft, all of whom have drastically slashed prices for raw cloud infrastructure services as they compete w...

...loads if these networking issues could be resolved.
Private connection services such as AWS Direct Connect, Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute or IBM Direct Link are likely catalysts for cloud adoption as they can resolve ne...

...ica (Brazil), Europe (Ireland and Germany), Singapore, Japan, and Australia. China is – sort of – on the way. Microsoft is in North America (Iowa, Virginia, Illinois, Texas and California), South America (Brazil), Europe...

...ce in Asian markets. Just as Asian service providers are extending their infrastructure reach to the U.S. and Europe, American and European companies are building out local presence in Asian markets.
The most recent exa...

...h two data centers in Germany to support its cloud services. There have been anonymously sourced reports that Microsoft was planning to bring an Azure data center to the Central European nation as well.
VMware’s vCloud ...

...he developers behind them. The most recent examples include Apple’s plans to power two future data centers in Europe with renewable energy and Amazon’s big wind power purchase agreement in Indiana.
There is some forward...

...here your digital data lives.
Other tech titans have preceded Apple by building data centers in Europe. With Microsoft notably fighting U.S. government requests for data held on foreign servers, it is unclear just how l...

...pgrade followed a significant investment to bolster the network.
With the likes of Google, Amazon, IBM, and Microsoft investing heavily in cloud, Linode has proven that the little guy can grow unimpeded in the space de...

...upgrade followed a significant investment to bolster the network.
With the likes of Google, Amazon, IBM, and Microsoft investing heavily in cloud, Linode has proven that the little guy can grow unimpeded in the space de...

...e ongoing new submarine cable construction projects include a U.S.-Brazil cable being built by Seaborn, which Microsoft recently invested in, and a Hibernia Networks project to build a trans-Atlantic system that connects...

...other services across US and Northern Europe. Even MSN and Xbox live were down, affecting thousands of users. Microsoft has published a detailed analysis of what caused the mass Azure outage in November.
The outage, whi...

...Colocation?
Europe is undergoing a rapid growth in terms of new data centre customers, especially in Western Europe. Along with these expanding businesses, real estate is become more and more scarce, upping the need for...

... recently made an announcement for coal power plants. At the same time they’re the fastest-growing economy in Europe. It’s quite an interesting dynamic going on in the country.”
Data center operators consume a ton of en...

...—is $1.8 trillion. That compares to $1.3 trillion for all 30 blue-chip companies in the DAX index in Germany, Europe’s largest economy.”
— http://www.wsj.com/articles/europe-vs-u-s-tech-giants-1418085890?mod=WSJ_hps _s...

...gions, such as China.
U.S. and Asia Pacific are experiencing fastest growth, while Latin America and Eastern Europe have declined. IDC breaks the numbers down to smaller regions in its statement, noting the four top Chi...

... more than $1 billion in investment related to its massive data center in Hamina – a repurposed paper mill.
Microsoft is building a $250 million data center in Finland. Russian Internet giant Yandex announced it would ...

...ll sell DHE as an on-premise solution and also as a cloud service through its Bluemix Platform-as-a-Service.
Microsoft and AWS will offer DHE as part of their public cloud services.
Docker also announced three containe...

...kloads to cloud, colocation players are thriving as many of these clouds are housed within their walls. While Microsoft, Amazon and Google build their own mega data centers, not all workloads are moving wholesale into pu...